Pagano-Papismus; Or, an Exact Parallel Between Rome-Pagan and Rome-Christian, in Their Doctrines and Ceremonies

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Secondly, With some, custome is a great obstacle against the receiving of truth: and thence it is that those who have been trained up in untruth from their Child-hood, are with greatest difficulty convinced of it, or converted from it. We may see the refractoriness of this resistance in Peter, Acts 10. who, when v. 12,13. a vision was presented unto him, shewing him several kinds of creatures, clean and unclean, and he had a command to kill and eat, v. 13. Not so v. 14. Lord (said he) why so Peter? he gives this reason of his refusal, though the command came from Heaven; because of his customary forbear­ance of forbidden meats, I have never eaten any thing that is common and unclean. CHAP. II. Of a contrary disposition in some too much addicted to disputation; in being too forward to make or accept of offers of dispute, and multiplying of needlesse and presumptuous questions and resolutions in matters of Religion. The Civil right of Tiths, proving 1. That the propriety of Tithes is not in the Land­holder. 2. Nor in the State. 3. But in the Incumbent, for Iohn Wright at the Kings head in the Old Bayly, printed 1653 in 4 to. Secondly, The Disputants are to have liberty to revise their own Reasons, Objections, and Solutions, and to correct them by altering, adding, or expunging, so as may make for the a­mendment of their own Arguments and Answers. This liberty Dr. Reynolds and Mr. Hart allowed one another.

Ans. A Leg. aur. fol. 180. p. 2. col. 1. young man died and raised by miracle, said, there was in heaven a void seat; and asking whose it was, answer was made, that it was kept for a great Bishop of England named Thomas of Canturbury. Symbolum dedit, coenavit. Ter. Andr. Act. 1. Sen. 1. Durand. Ratio­nal. l. 4. c. 25. fol. 133. p. 1. Erasm. Cate­chism. Symboli Apostolor. &c. set out with pictures to eve­ry Article at the beginning of the book. WHERETO IS ADDED A Consolatory Letter to Dr. Bryan,&c. upon the death of his worthily well-beloved and much bewailed Son Mr. NATHANIEL BRYAN: Which immediately followeth after the Discourse of Disputations.Of our Disputation with Mr. J. O. in particular, as by him it is published, and his examination of some of your Argu­ments, set forth in print, to set forth himself as a Triumphant Antagonist (for his Sect,) not onely over you, but over all the reformed Churches throughout the world. Of whom when I come to that part, I shall give you my sense and apprehension as he deserveth; and mine advice touching an answer to him as you desire, and I conceive to be most convenient. The maintenance of the Sanctuary, for Iohn Maynard at the George in Fleetstreet, near St. Dunstans Church, printed 1642. in 4 to. First, they must be learned in the Learned Languages, in Arts, and Histories, in Textual and Polemical Divinity; for they may in conflict be put to it, to make use of all the learning they have. A Gospe pl lea for Maint. and Tenths of the Ministers of the Gospel, by Will. Prynne Esq; for Mich. Sparks, printed 1653. in 4 to.

The Parsons Guide, on the Law of Tithes, by W. S. Esq; printed for Will. Lee, D. Pakemere, and G. Bedel, at their shops in Fleetstreet, printed 1654. in 4 to. Diatribe upon the first part of the Hist. of Tithes, by Rich. Montague, for Mattk. Lownes, printed 1621. in 4 to. Menot, Serm. fol. 47. col. 4.Because he had nor cunning enough to use it; for he cut off Malchus his care when he should have cut off his head.Secondly, I suspected your confidence in committing the copy of your dispute to his publication by the Press, would be abused by him, and so I believe it was more wayes then one, as I have shewed. Obj. But if the division be derived from a Bishop of Rome, it is Popish, and by consequence Antichristian also. The fifteenth day shall be a new Heaven and a new Earth, and all things and all dead men shall arise.

First, I thought you came much below the elevation of your own worth, when you entred the Lists with an illiterate man, as Mr. J. O. is, albeit of a wrangling wit; though there was a kind of necessity I confess at that time, for the exercise of your humility upon his proud challenge, as of your ingenuity and ability in the conflict. Of man, whether the rib of which Eve, was made were one of Adams necessary ribs, or one superfluous: this is the question of Peter. super Genesin. c. 2. q. 6. p. 159. Pererius a learned Jesuit, which by his own con­fession is by one of his own centured for a superfluous que­stions CHAP. III. That disputations on matters of Religion are warrantable by Scripture and reason, and not onely lawfull, but sometimes also expedient and profitable. Before I dispute upon the question, saith Mr. Walker, I desire to know your quality and calling, whether you be a professed Popish Priest or no? Sixthly, There are so many now engaged in the defence of the Churches of Christ (for now Mr. O. sets himself against all the Churches of Europe, and New England, besides Old En­gland) that so much work cannot in reason fall to your share, as still to manage the defence of them all against him, or any such obstreperous talker; especially having such a weighty bur­den of pastoral employment continually upon you.Quest. 10. What shall be the condition of the world the last fifteen dayes before the day of Judgement? First, The Churches, whose primitive constitution was the best and nearest to that of the Apostler, both in time, matter, and form, as that of Jerusalem, Rome, Antioch, and the Churches of Asia, long since are fallen from the faith, and have unchur­ched themselves by their Apostasie.